Erich Leinsdorf Quotes
The Congressman ascertained that the consulate in Havana had numbers to feed the pigs.
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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Decision – making is very scary for me.
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You don't have to be something to do something.
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There wasn't really a song or artist that made me want to be a singer, I think I was always a fan of country music.
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I get people being frightened of me. One time I did this photo shoot where I had hairy armpits – I was really digging it, but they were like, 'We'll airbrush that out.'
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I see couples fighting about the stupidest things. You just have to rise above everything.
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I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.
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Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.
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My mother is my hero.
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I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.
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We have grown accustomed to the wonders of clean water, indoor plumbing, laser surgery, genetic engineering, artificial joints, replacement body parts, and the much longer lives that accompany them. Yet we should remember that the vast majority of humans ever born died before the age of 10 from an infectious disease.
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May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire.
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If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. ...But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.
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Generally speaking in America, a lot of environmentally problematic facilities tend to be located in places where poor folks live because wealthier folks have the ability to say, "not in my backyard."
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[Jonathan] Edwards definitely shows up in the book [Saving Calvinism]. He appears as one of the interlocutors in the chapter on free will, the other being the Southern Presbyterian theologian John Girardeau.
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...I knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted.
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A wish is a dish that's a lot like a fish: Once it's been eaten it's harder to throw back. - Mr. Rakshasas
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May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, or shouldn't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. As we value our happiness let us not forget it. For one of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be happy without the things we cannot or should not have.
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The upheavals of adolescence silenced 'A Christmas Carol' for a few years. I became a firebrand atheist. Christmas - humbug! Too commercial! Then I became an agnostic. Christmas was a pro-forma affair, basically a chore. Buy mother a book, dad a new tie, my brother and sister small gifts. Pretend thanks for the fountain pens and shirts I received.
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Sit back picture yourself swooping up a shell of purple with foam crests of crystal drops soft nigh they fall unto the sea of morning creep-very-softly mist...and then sort of cascade tinkley-bell like (must I take you by the hand, every so slowly type) and then conglomerate suddenly into a peal of silver vibrant uncomprehendingly, blood singingly, joyously resoundingbells....By my faith if this be insanity, then for the love of God permit me to remain insane.
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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.
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The Congressman ascertained that the consulate in Havana had numbers to feed the pigs.
